WITHIN THE 

 HERBACEOUS 

 GARDEN 



AN we conceive what humanity 

 '^Mfw . would be if it did not know the 

 flowers? If these did not exist, 

 if they had always been hidden 

 from our gaze, as are probably a thou- 

 sand no less fairy sights that are all 

 around us, but invisible to our eyes, 

 would our character, our moral system, 

 our sense of the beautiful our moral ap- 

 titude for happiness be quite the same? 

 We should, it is true, have other splendid 

 manifestations of luxury, exuberance 

 and grace in nature; other dazzling 

 efforts of the infinite forces: sun, 

 stars, moonlight, sky and sea, dawns 

 and twilights, mountain and plain, for- 



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